Hey all. I am new to the board. Never knew it exsisted. So glad I found it. I am not new to AA. Been in and out of the Rooms since 2010. My new sobriety date is 2-10-12. Currently I am in IOP. (Instense Out Patient) treatment. I am learning indeed that this disease is progressive.
Keep me in your prayers! Glad to be here!!!!!
-- Edited by stnatina on Saturday 18th of February 2012 08:22:45 AM
Welcome - I came to this board over 3 years ago with a post not so different than what you just wrote. My first post here was in December of 2008 and my sobriety date is 10/1/08. MIP has been very helpful and a big part of this journey for me. Hope you stick around here and share what is going on in your AA program.
In support,
Mark
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Keep coming back. It works if you work it. So work it. You're worth it!
Welcome to "MIP". You're right, this is a progressive disease. But the payoff is worth it. Sobriety has offered me so much more, in spite of myself. And that's why I appreciate sobriety that much more every day. It does work, but we have to work for it. So continue doing just that...work for it.
I too am a newbie. I took my white chip on 2-14-2012. I have been struggling with getting sober for years now. There was a time when I was in a worse situation then I am now but I always managed to pull myself out of it but kept on drinking. It was a part of my social life, it was what we all did. Go to dinner, have a drink. Get together, have a drink. Go to an event, have a drink before. Some of my friends would have one or two and stop, but I never could. Then I would wake up the next day wishing I hadn't said this or that, hadnt done this or that. Two marriages later, and another failed 3 year relationship I finally decided that I would take my Dad to an AA meeting just to be a good daughter. He has been sober 30 years but had recently moved to the town I live in and I thought I would show him the meeting. WOW, did I learn a lot in that first meeting. Now, with the white chip in my pocket, I have been sober for five days and plan to keep going back. I could tear myself away from the meetings and I realized that alcoholics aren't living on the street, poor, dirty and constanting in and out of jail. They are people like me, that can't take control their drinking. Some of the worst decisions of my life were made when I was drinking. I have lost a lot of years because I choose alcohol over sobriety. I plan to choose sobriety now. I still have everyone saying, except for my father, "You aren't an alcoholic, just learn to control it". They do not know what alcoholism is or they would not say that. I am an alcoholic, because I can not control it, nor can I control myself when drinking.
I am so thankful to have found this site as I was googling "What book do you recommend to a new comer to AA". Why that google search led me here, I don't know.....or maybe I do. Thank you for being here.
Theresa
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"When I enjoyed it, I couldn't control it. When I controlled it, I didn't enjoy it." I'm taking back control!
Welcome, welcome, welcome!! Have a seat, stay awhile... :)
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I think there's an invisible principle of living...if we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. Its a lovely sight, watching it work.
